Chapter 428: On the Right Track
(Tomorrow erupts!) )
The weather on August 5th was not very good, and he slept until six o'clock, and when he woke up after the alarm clock rang, Hu Yifei saw that it was still gloomy outside the window.
He stretched, answered Scarlett's call, had a meal, and hurried to the crew. The child has been sent back to China and handed over to Li Huizhao to raise temporarily, and he is 10,000 relieved. Both of them are busy people, and there are not many opportunities to meet, but they didn't mention breaking up, so they just got along.
After Scarlett catches up with Wood's movie, she is going to shoot "Iron Man", and there is a "Captain America 1" waiting for her to start work. The role played is naturally Black Widow.
For the role that Hu Yifei arranged for her, Scarlett was not happy at first, she wanted to prove that she could succeed without relying on her boyfriend, but in the face of the future arranged for her by her boyfriend, she was always reluctant to have a good road. couldn't bear the persuasion of her agent, so she stepped down by the ladder, and proudly accepted it.
Hu Yifei is also very busy, but he doesn't care if she is arrogant or not.
The premiere of "Juno" performed well, and he was relieved. Now that the "Transformers" movie has been filmed for half a month, the crew has begun to gradually complete the run-in, and the plot of the movie has filmed the scene where the actor's father took the actor to buy a car.
When Hu Yifei watched "Transformers 1" in the previous time and space, he always thought that it was an incredible thing for an American family to buy a car for his child when he was in high school. So there are some changes in the plot, and at the same time it does not deviate from the main plot.
The specific plot is that the protagonist's father takes Sam Witwich very undisciplinedly to walk around the Ferrari store, and then goes to the broken second-hand car shop next door under the protagonist's painful roar. This is a very interesting plot, as long as it is well acted and gives the audience a strong contrast, it is enough to make the audience laugh.
The entire opening plot, in addition to setting off the protagonist's ** silk temperament, Hu Yifei removed a lot of useless plots, and then added time to the entire earth in the back to become a battlefield for Transformers. Hu Yifei himself thinks that this is a popcorn movie, forget about the connotation or something, or use the endless explosions and fierce battle clips to turn the audience up.
Of course, occasional humor is needed. It is important to know that Americans eat this set, and the later "Warcraft" movie was also good, but unfortunately it is not popular in the United States, and it is said that one reason is because of the lack of humor in it.
After more than half an hour of busy work, the Ferrari store, the second-hand car shop next to it, and the makeup of the protagonist 'father and son' were all ready, and the camera rails and cantilever were also laid out. Hu Yifei and Michael Bay, his cinematographer Valephaester and two actors discussed the filming process and precautions, and finally felt that there was no problem, so they announced the start of filming.
After an "action", the main character, Sam, sits in his father's Bentley, and then leads his father to the place where he bought the car.
"Son, you know, I'm going to surprise you today." Sitting in the car, my father talked eloquently.
"What surprise?"
"Well, a small surprise." Following the words of the protagonist's father, the car makes a turn and arrives at the door of the Ferrari.
Sam, played by Andrew, was very surprised when he saw all this, his face was about to drip with happiness, and he smiled brightly: "Dad, are you kidding?" Can I really buy a car here? ”
"Yes. I'm kidding, you're not going to get a Ferrari, I'm kidding you, hahaha! The unscrupulous old man laughed very exaggeratedly, causing Sam to have a black line and want to cry.
"Oh... No ......," Sam held his head. Scratching his hair a few times, he was depressed, and finally complained, "You think this is fun? ”
"Yes, it's fun." With Dad's smug laughter.
Because there is not much acting involved and few close-ups of facial expressions, this kind of performance is easy to pass.
"Galen, I see we all have a lot in common." Michael Bay said to Hu Yifei while watching the shooting scene.
"Really?" Hu Yifei smiled sideways. "Prove that we are all geniuses...... That's why I'm looking for you! ”
He didn't blush, and his heart didn't beat, and he gave himself and the other party a sycophant. After this period of getting along, Michael Bay belongs to the kind of person who is more open and very casual, and this kind of person is quite suitable for Hu Yifei's personality.
On the other hand, "Juno" continues to be released in North America, and there is more and more discussion about the movie in the outside world.
"Spy" is a commercial production after all, and "Juno" seems to have more points to discuss. Especially since the next week, among the teenage camp, the popularity of "Juno" has surpassed that of "Spy". You know, in the summer vacation, they are the main camp of the theater.
Despite the dark horse trend, the release of "Juno" did not expand much, only expanding by a few hundred theaters in North America to 2,900 theaters. But almost the same is that the 2,900 theaters have quite high attendance; And the screening room of "Spy Shadow" in the cinema is also overcrowded.
This weekend, the movie "Rush Hour 3" starring Chen Long was released, with an average score of about $12,000 per museum, and won the first weekend box office result of $50.23 million, sitting firmly on the top 10 champion.
But the film's lack of staying power was exposed as scheduled, and the $12,000 result of a single museum was slightly better than last week's "Juno". Compared with the third part of the sequel to the series at the same time, "Spy Shadows", there is too much difference.
Professional organizations predict that the final box office hopes to achieve 150 million dollars are slightly slim.
And the lion's big mouth and sky-high bidding directly led to the delay of the sequel fighter starring Chris Tucker, although he is the backbone of the box office appeal of the "Spike" series, he also cannot escape the condemnation of the "big sinner". Instead, it dragged down the protagonist Chenlong.
After all, the huge investment of $140 million is obvious to all, so in order to save the face of the box office family, the local harvest of "Rush Hour 3" should at least not be lower than the cost figure - even if it is at worst, it must be on par with the 141 million dollar of "Rush Hour 1".
Otherwise, "Rush 3" will become the second box office champion suspected of making ends meet this summer after "Fake Gods 2" with a production fee of $175 million. "Fake 2" can still be exempted due to the congenital deficiency of the male number one changing hands, while the "white, black, yellow and iron triangle" starring the director in "Peak 3" is still not as good as before, like a typical case of declining popularity, which is really a sigh.
In contrast, the near-perfect "Spy 3" can be described as a rare long-term sequel this summer.
The film, which continues to increase the capacity of 15 cinemas this week, grabbed nearly $19 million in 3,701 theaters on the weekend with an average score of more than $5,100 per theater, a decrease of about 42%, and has sold 134 million $ in tickets so far, undoubtedly eclipsing "Ratatouille", which took four weeks to reach the result.
The 200 million $ battle has been won so far - but the American media was shocked at this time: it turned out that the last corner of the "post-triumvirate" was neither "Ratatouille" nor "The Simpsons", but "Spy 3" of "See the Third Part Again"!
However, "Juno", a small literary youth comedy film sandwiched between the two blockbuster camps, is particularly outstanding, with an investment cost of no more than $20 million, and it was earned back in the first three days, and the rest is all profits, I don't know how much easier it is than "Spy" and "Peak".
This week, it continued to win $26.5 million at the box office, and the cumulative box office in North America was $86.5 million, which can be called the biggest dark horse in the second half of the summer.
But this dark horse fell on Hu Yifei, the "big director" who is the best at making dark horses, and the true colors of dark horses are not too eye-catching. It can only be said that he once again proved his film talent. And other film companies can only watch the small company of Family Pictures make a lot of money.
It's just that fans of "Juno" are a little disappointed, and the momentum that young people have just climbed has been beaten down by a series of sequel productions, after all, if you can win this week's championship, it means that you can attract more follow-up fans to watch.
It's a pity that the timing of the release of "Juno" is too unfortunate. (To be continued.) )